Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relation to the function of mental life. Psychology A, given by Professor Pratt, and open to Freshmen, gives a wider outlook on the total field of psychology. While discussing the subject matter of Psychology 1 to a certain extent, it makes it quite clear that such is only one branch of Psychology, and goes on to treat of motivation, personality, social and abnormal psychology and other topics...
...family tradition for Jock Whitney to row at Yale; he stroked the 1926 junior varsity. When his father died, he had just finished a year at Oxford. Since then-though he belongs definitely to the more conservative branch of the family, in whom the prudent Payne blood runs strong-he has begun to blossom out as befits a young man with a fortune estimated at $100,000,000. Readily accessible in his office at No. 14 Wall St., he is not suspicious or wary of people who come to sell him things, but keenly alert for interesting and constructive ways...
...purpose of these general examinations is to relieve the student of the burden of keeping in his head an array of elementary facts, and allow him to specialize during Senior year in any branch of physics which appeals to him. In May he must take a divisional examination covering the particular work that he has been doing. He is not required to write a thesis...
Courses in the Department of Music group themselves into three chief types, according to the men who give them; technical, appreciative, and scholastic. In the fast class are the materials of musical technique--Harmony, Counterpoint, and Composition. The instructors in this branch are Professor Piston and Mr. Merritt. Professor Piston is a man of great ability, in full command of his subject, and actually engaged in musical composition. No less capable as an instructor is Mr. Merritt, enthusiastic to the last degree, with an omnivorous musical appetite. The method of instruction in these courses is based on the French system...
...read the works of well-known, well-liked authors, many of them officials of this homey paper. But it now seems that the spectator, like every other American publication, is a shop for earning literary reputations, rather than a gymnasium for proving them (and in the case of Branch Cabell a hospital for desperate measures...